We are currently experiencing an extremely hot month in Montréal (and more generally in North America). Looking at people having a beer, and starting the first barbecue of the year, I was wondering: if we asked people if global warming was a good ...

If the Flight of the Concords taught me anything, it's that you can't trust Australians. This morning I was poking around the DataMarket site, when I noticed something suspicious about Australian sheep production:
I decided to investigate further: ju...

In the puzzle found in Le Monde of this weekend, the mathematical object behind the silly story is defined as a pseudo-Spearman rank correlation test statistic, where the difference between the ranks of the paired random variables and is in absolute value instead of being squared as in the Spearman rank test statistic. I don’t